Spotify Now Available from the Chrome Web Store

Late last year, Spotify released their Web Player into limited beta. This week sees the start of the open beta, and the subsequent release into the Chrome Web Store.

Many competitors in streaming music, like Rdio and MOG, all have web players for their user’s to access their music libraries. Spotify has been limited to a deskop client and mobile apps. It has been Spotify’s most requested feature, and late last year Spotify released the Web Player to a limited set of users.

It provides similar functionality as the desktop client, including search, Spotify Radio, playlist editing and creation, and a “What’s New” section. The idea is to support growing trends into HTML5, such as Windows 8 and Chrome OS. As well as provide easy access to Spotify while at work or around a friend’s house. It will not replace Spotify’s desktop client.

This week, Spotify has formally released the Web Player as an open beta, though it is currently limited to UK users. Limited beta is still enforce in other Spotify countries.

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Just posted in the thread you linked to. I’d love a full Packaged App for Spotify, using the newest version of the Packaged App API.

Ed Hewitt

I saw that message. It will be good if they could do it, but since their supporting many different web browsers, I not sure how high up on their list is it to implement this feature for Chrome.

http://twitter.com/redbullcat Phil Oakley

Twitter did it, so let’s hope they can. It’d be fantastic if they did. I currently have a choice to make between Spotify and Rdio for my £120 p/year. Generally I find Rdio’s apps better, but Spotify getting a full Chrome app would swing it in their favour.

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon

There’s a twitter packaged app?!

http://twitter.com/redbullcat Phil Oakley

TweetDeck.

Carlos

How to put that “Open as Window” option by default to the system? (for every app, even new ones)

Ed Hewitt

It will work with all web apps, but you must select the option manually for each app.

http://seanslater.com/ Sean Slater

Why didn’t they just call it ‘Spotify’.

http://visuex.com/ Michael Tunnell

where is the fun in “logic”?

robertallen79

I really hope they bring this to the USA, because the more apps they get like this the more willing I would be willing to get a chromebook, right now that the draw back to chromebook not enough major apps like spotify, vudu, amazon and such